Friday, December 23, 2011

The Secret Research Tool of the Novelist

I have a terrible time staying organized with my research. I have bookmarks in my Web browser, Excel spreadsheets on my hard drive, notes in Word documents, folders full of clip art, as well as some audio and video files.

Recently, I discovered a free web-based notebook called Zoho Notebook. It's exactly what I was looking for. It lets me take any type of media and file it in a virtual notebook. I can name the notebooks according to the novel I'm working on, and my notebooks can have any number of pages with any type of media on any page.

Below is a 5 minute video overview from YouTube (You'll be hooked within the first 30 seconds). Let me know what you think!


2 comments:

Brinda said...

I'll check out the video. I'm always looking for better ways to be organized. I have downloaded Evernote which works on my iPad and mobile devices as well as the web interface. I haven't made a final decision yet. Thanks for the info.

Corey Popp said...

I'm checking out Evernote right now, Brinda. I like Zoho's page feature better than Evernote, but I really like how Evernote gives me the option to sync on the Internet or just store things locally. Dilemmas, dilemmas!

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